At first, Eryka (above, left) tried on solely white clothes for her wedding ceremony. “I attempted on each one on the market,” she mentioned, “and ran out of choices. So, I opened myself as much as colour.” She and her fiancée Rachel ended up each sporting fuchsia on their large day. Right here, three {couples} share their matching seems to be…
Eryka + Rachel
Eryka (left) and Rachel at Metropolis Corridor.
Eryka: We had been planning to get married in August 2026 within the lake city the place Rachel grew up, however after the 2024 presidential election, we felt it was essential to get our geese in a row earlier than the inauguration in January 2025. We had two months.
Rachel: Though nontraditional, a colourful wedding ceremony outfit felt pure to me. I knew I needed to put on a swimsuit, and I’ve all the time preferred a fluorescent palette. As a result of we had been on a decent timeline, the query was, what choices can be found? I knew I’d discover issues that match effectively and really feel good at J. Crew.
Eryka: After I determined to maneuver away from white clothes, Instagram’s algorithm fed me a pink Banana Republic gown, and it simply clicked.
Rachel: At first, I frightened that we could be too matchy-matchy. However Eryka had a imaginative and prescient, and she or he’s just about all the time proper about aesthetic selections.
Eryka: Solange’s wedding ceremony had been burned in my mind since I noticed the photographs again in 2014. I like how she and her husband each wore white and seemed so slick and cohesive. Matching is one thing we wouldn’t actually do outdoors of this expertise, so it made it really feel particular.
Andrew + Dae
Andrew (left) and Dae throughout their first look.
Andrew: From the beginning, we preferred the concept of sporting related outfits to emphasise us coming collectively in marriage. We discovered a tremendous tailor in L.A. — Jerry at JB Clothiers. He even custom-made our shirts and added particulars like our initials. I beloved that we matched however had delicate variations in our seems to be and wore totally different footwear.
Dae: We landed on white tuxes with black trim. We didn’t wish to look conventional but in addition didn’t wish to look too fashionable, and the white tuxes felt like an ideal in-between. We additionally put our wedding ceremony get together in black.
Dae: I feel a lot of a heterosexual wedding ceremony is targeted on the bride’s look, however that simply isn’t us. We needed to see one another shine, but in addition shine collectively as a unit. I hate when buddies mix names like Bennifer, however it actually grew to become a DaeDrew second.
Katie + Mike
Katie: I had been married earlier than and wore a standard gown, however neither that marriage nor gown had been as ‘me’ as I needed to be this time.
Mike: I used to be enthusiastic about a complicated look involving florals — one thing blue, plus winter whites. This coat turned out to be precisely what I used to be in search of.
Katie: Mike settled on that jacket, and I used to be nonetheless wanting round at concepts when I discovered an identical corset. That’s what pulled it collectively.
Mike: Matching introduced residence the sensation that the 2 of us are in it collectively.
Katie: And it introduced a way of gender equality to the event, which is actually vital to us.
Congratulations to all of the attractive {couples}!
P.S. Would you put on a brief wedding ceremony gown, and how did you make your wedding ceremony really feel true to you?
(Sylvie Rosokoff shot the weddings of each Mike and Katie and Rachel and Eryka. Dae and Andrew’s wedding ceremony was photographed by itla photograph.)
